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The future city

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1914

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... The future city, artistic and scientific world centre;
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Address by Mr. Adam upon Ilendrik C. Andersen's project of a "world
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Bibliotheque du Comite ^Trance-Amerique"

Mr PAUL ADAM

The Future City

WUh a prefKe

by Mr E BOUTROUX, of the ''Academie Fran$aise

Comity France-Am^iie "

SI&GE SOCIAL, 21, RUE CASSETTE, PARIS

1914

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The Future City

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Mr PAUL ADAM

The Future City

Artistic and Scientific World Centre

With a Preface
by IVIr ^MILE BOUTROUX
of the "Academie Frangaise-

SifiGE SOCIAL, 21, BUB CJASSETTE, PAEIS

Coiiiitf '"France-Am^rique"

1914

The Future City

Presentatioa of Mr P« Adam by Mr Emile BontfWK

When the Comity France*Am6riqiie did me the hmor of inviting me
to preside at this conferenoe, my first impulse, as yon idU readfly under-
stand, was to say that neither the work nor the speaker needed my recom-
mendation. If, nevertheless, I accepted, it was, I admit, with a somewhat
selfish intention. I seized the occasion of a very generously idealistic iwo-
ject concelired by an American citizen^ in order publicly to thank the Ame-
ricans for the welcome, so warm, so fratmial, which they give to Frenchmen,
whose sojourn in the United States is thereby made as agreeable as it is
instructive and invigorating. Only recently I renewed my impres-
sions. They remain the same. It is not by chance that the magnificent
project to which we now ghre <mr attrition was bom in the brain of an
American dtizen. The wh<de tendency of contemporary American effort
is to transmute the prodigious mass of material resources which it owes
to its intense labor, aided by a marvellously practical spirit, into science
education, and the expansion and ennoblement ot the hmnan souL Fie
upon work tiiat does not pay, is said in America. But the necessary pro-
duct without which all the rest would be illusory, is the intellectual and
moral product, the increase of human dignity and grandeur.

Such is indeed the characteristic of the work with which we are now
dealing ; and the artist i^osopher who j^resrats this ^ject to you has
been able to conceive it acowffing to American ideas, without in any way
denying the profoundly religious and idealistic spu-it of his Norwegian an-
cestry.

The most evidently distinctive trait of our modem worid is the {urodK
gious increase of the means oi emmiunication among men. Henceanan{m>
eedented unpetus ia i^ven to matmal dvflization. But shall physical
life only profit by this? Clearly there is here an immense power which
man can turn to account for the development of his mind as well as for
the multiplication and satisfaction ol tus needs. Upon all sides» scholar^

artists, educators of all countries are eadeavoring to utUize these new
conditions for the enlargement of their knowledge and of their id^
Mr Andersen proposes to consecrate and second these effoitst by he estar
bUahment of a permanent centre, to be, as it were, the inteUectual capital of

the human republic .

Only the most noble occupations of humanity would be represented in
this sanctuary of the ideal : science, art, education, morals, religion. With
his robust optimism, founded upon the generosity of his own sentiments,
Mr Cameglc said to us, on the second of last July : Men love each other when
theu know each other. As a matter of fact, this condition, though certainly
necessary, is not, alas ! sufficient. We see people who thought they
loved each other when they knew each other little, but who, as acquwntancc
ripens, hate each other the more cordially. But certainly, a more mtunate
acquaintance engenders affection when it arises among men working in
common to realize a grand and beautiful object.

It is precisely this universal collaboration in the most sublim* of *nde»-
vors which this city conceived by Mr Andersen would favor. And m
common conscience of which he proposes to hasten the development wUl
be made up of aU the highest and the best our individual consciences con-
tain, carried to a higher degree of perfecUon by the assistance of the most
worthy representatives of humanity. Does this now mean that m Ui»
universal conscience our national consciences must merge and disappear,

like rivers m the ocean?

Such a result would indeed be disastrous ; for the advantages of unifor-
mity and unity, pure and simple, would poorly compensate for the detriment
to art. to life, even to science which the disappearance of all the elemento
of en^, fecundity, variety, emotion, strength, joy and grandeur, bdon-
ging to the nationid consciences, would cause. Man can only stand upon
the heights by leaning upon that whidi touches earth ; and as the famUy
is the support of the nation, so the nations are the columns of >»«»»^«*y-

The big lines and the nature of Mr Andersen's project, in the architectural
execution of which he was so ably assisted by Mr Ernest H6brard. will be
presented to you by Mr Paul Adam, I shaU not be so presumptuous as to tell
you the extent to which Mr Paul Adam is fitted for his task Few writers
are as universally and justly celebrated. Not only is Panl Adam ^^^^
but, better still, he is read ; and it is by having thus enjoyed hmi. that every-
boir knows his fine insight into men and things, his rare and vital erudition.
Wspicturesque sense of the ,«d and concrete. aUied to the profoundly reflec-
tive spirit of the phUosopher and moralist. Mr P. Adam has a very Uvely

sense of the vatae of the ffoup. of the community and of the coUective cons-
ciousness as opposed to the selfish claims of individual egotism to indepenr
dence and to the satisfaction of its appetites. On the other hand, he cans
too much for the individuality and characteristics of each nation to side
with a work that would aim at effacing the national character, and at repla-
cing an eternal unison upon a single note for tiie splendid harmony whicii
the diverse families of men are called upon to form.

Mr Paul Adam is not only a profound, ingenious, supple and distinguished
imter. He is. here, the right man in the right place.

The only snitfOile intiMidttction is to allow him immediateiy to speak

for himsdf .

ConJereaee of Mr Paul Adam

I

Will you for a moment imagine that one of Hannon the Carthaginian's pilots,
returning from an attempted journey upon the African coast 600 years B.C.,
hs4 desired to be initiated into the mysteries of Tanit-Astarte, and, over-
come by the terrifying ordeals in the underground passages, had faUen into
a catalepsy from which even the learning of the attending hierophanto could
not awaken him. In the first days of the XVIIIth century this long sleep
ends. Our man gropes his way out of the sepulchre and the ruins. He
behol4B the light of day. Beduins pasturing flocks of goats among the
russet bushes and bluish stones, question hua. They lead him to the Bey
of Tunis, Hussdn-ben-Ali, whose priests understand a few wwds <tf Punic
which survive in the Maltese and Arabian languages. The marvellous
history of the resuscitated man cause him to be taken for a venerable lunatic.
But soon be makes friends with the seamen in the harbor, who take him out
in one of their galleys rowed by Christiim captives. (Grtung to the helm
upon a stormy night, and giving orders throng a speaking trumpet, the
lunatic replaces the captain while coasting regions once well known to Punic
sailors.

Let us transput this pilot to an admiral's galley of the time of Louis XIV.
The Carthaginian need only make a slight ^ort to complete his nautical

knowledge both as regards the rigging and astronomy. He will even lau^
at the compass, without which Hannon' s sailors risked themselves upon the
AJbicau Ocean five oentiuies before the battle of Actium. A similar hand-

ling of the oars and sails, the reading of longitude and latitude by the hei^t

of the stars above the horizon, all this was known by Carthiginians before
the good Hipparchus formed his Greek theory for the construction of the
astrolabe. Here then we see Hannon's pilot guiding Louis XIV's, galley
across the Mediterranean accwding to the same methods as were prescribed

to pious mariners by the ancient gods of Phcenida.

Two thousand years have passed.
The same science guides a similar ship.

little more will be required in wder that admirals of the time ct
Louis XV, Louis XVI and Napoleon may be able to present their complex
fleets to the favor of the winds. The line ships at Trafalgar are manoeuvred
in the same way as at Lepantus, or almost ; and de Bougainville's squadron
went to the discovery of Taiti with the same means as Vasco de Gama,
Christopher Columbus, Alvarez Cabral and Magellan.

If, on the other hand, in the closet of Triumphant Wisdcnn, at Lyons,
Cagliostro had hypnotised and put to sleep an admiral returning from the
war of 1780, made by the French frigates united to those of Spain in order
to rasure the liberty of the North-Americans who, oppressed by the Ger-
manic dynasty of Hanovw, were, through Franklin and Washington*
demanding the aid of the encyclopaedists, of the Lafayettes, Mirandas and
Rochambeaux, this admiral waking today, one century after the liberating
Revolutions of European, American, Hindu, even Chinese peoples, could
in nowise take ccmmiand of a cruiser.

In one century, sdenoe substitoted madiin^ for sails, the intwnal
elastic force of steam for capricious external winds, the hertzian waves for
flag-signalling, screw-propellers for the many oars of the galley, the tele-
phone for the speaking trumpet, electricity, everywhere radiant, for the
ied(»le rays of a laatmi smoking behind horn panes, the precudon of com-
passes, tdemetres and all the sjmthetie instrum^ts of tl^ modera stemng
geer for the inexact sextant and the defective mariner's needle of yore,
frozen viands for the barrels of salted food-stuffs, a thousand men posted
UDOa numerous deck turrets in order to send at a distance of six kilometres
the cataclysm of their meliBiies for the three hundred sailors sharpening
then- swords or ahning, mesh in hand, from bdiind their canons at a tai^et
only three or four hundred metres distant.

In less than a century, the natural forces : steam, electricity, the hert-
zian waves, «ibdued by the most highly gifted intellects of the human race,
so radtcaUy dianged the mariner's art, that this art would appear a mys-
tery not only to the disciples de Bougainville and Lap6ronse, but even

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to the crew of admiral Duperri who in 1830 brought his fleet to Algiers.
And what is true of the nautical science is as true of the other sciences, for

they all concur in the progress of our modern passenger ships and sted-
dads. The results of the latest discoveries are the first to be utilized.

In antiquity as today, the diip has always been the master-piece of
adence.

Fnm the Antonines to Bonaparte human genius created Uttle. No
luxury, no philosophical ideas, no literature even, which were not derived
from the Hellenic and Roman intellect and did not reedit its conceptions.
Christianity itself borrows from Stoicism the greater part of its precepts.
It prays in Latin. Moreover, Christianity existed m the time of Nero,
with ten thousand adepts and two churches in Rome alone. The dei^
and bishops of the Middle-Ages only bring back the Justinian code into
the midst of the Germans, who by their feudalism oppress the nations. Only
the aesthetics of the cathedral ccmtinue the Christian thought of saint Paul.
Shakespeare and Montaigne, the Scandivian and the Meditmaneui find thdr
ideal only in Rome ; Corneille and Racine the same. Ndther the pan-
theism of Spinoza nor the cosmogonic views of Newton will change customs
as modi as will the doctrines of the En<^dopaedists.

Canon powder modifies but little the usual strategics, and the cavaUers
of Napoleon carry batteries sword in hand, much as those of Caesar
jostled the defenders of catapults.

There are moments when human genius slumbers.

There are others when it is exalted by the fever of creation.

In the century of the Antonines, the refinonents of the philosophical
and artistic spirit, taught by Greek dvilization, reached a climax. To a
hundred peoples of Asia, Africa and Europe, the administration of the Cae-
sura gave a legislative framework which we have not yet surpassed. The
law admitted by the people S. P. Q. R. governed the old world which the

Mediterranean dvilized.

Then came the Barbarians from the North ; and for a whole era the
intelligence of the most highly gifted was obscured. Between a Latin trireme
and a galley of the XVIIIth century few differences mark progress. The
arrangement of saOs is the same, the tedmicalities of riggii^ and the astro-
nomical methods show no important divorgence. Seventewi centuries pass.
The two Americas are discovered, as well as the Hindu, Chinese and Japa-
nese Orient : of a sudden, the Encyclopaedia, elaborating a comparative
table of the sdences of history and of ideas, generalises these ideas, then
drans condudons at the tune of the F^rendi Revdution, the ^erican and

mtix^ revotatioiw. Quickly foUowing one another, these revolutions
form the only wori*4nov«nent rince Christiwiiiiy.

They arose to the sound of the Marsdlleise, of ^iiidi the secular mXtOt
formally gave its rhythm to the Turkish, Persian and Chinese libertariiia*,
A few years eaiiier the inspiration of Rouget de I'lsle, Jeoffroy d'Abbans
and Fnlton sent forth the first steam-ships; Lavoisier established chemistry
and Monge descriptive geometry; Lamartk founded transfomrian. VolU
discovered the electric pile. Laplace wrote the astronomieal laws. GtKthfc
imagined his prodigious masterpiece of the two Fausts, and Kant his spin-
UtH&m. Auguste Comte wiU soon give his positivist doctrine and his laws
to an the radicab of the IWh century. Chemistry, physics and biology
evolve with a miraculous rapidity, that is translated before our eyea
into such miracles as the ancient poets revered. Without harness, diiri*to
nm With a magical speed. Tritons plunge into the bosom of the sea with
ttie submarines. Icarius flies. Swifter than Iris, the message-bearing
thought, entrusted to the waves of an aerial vibratioB. spreads from Europe
to Africa, Asia, America in a fraction of thne.

The XlXth century alone, invents, calculates and realises more tha* was
imagined by the lyricals during the eight centuries that intervened between
the thou^t of Marcus AureUiis and the breath of Danton.

Human genius gives rapid Wrth to prodigies.

Jupiters by the millions manipulate the lightning. Phaetons pass in
a day through the spaces of the European sky.

About us every day, a laboratory truth is metamorphosed into a factory
calculation, a diemisfs observation into an industrial trust distributing
profits among increasing numbers of people. The ptanet resounds under
the hammerstrokes of innumerable Vulcans and Cyclops.

The ancient Demeter-Goea struggles in the network of steel rails which
express-trains travel. Did the nymphs of the waterfaUs know that they
would one day deHver up the force of their waves to the power of a dynamo
that would change them into electric lightning glowing over Whole regions?
Did the dryads of the forest know that from their trees would come f«rth
the books which hold the creative thought? Did the centaurs of the steppes
know What fidds rich in harvests were trodden by theu- hoofs? Did
the Plutos know aU the coal and metals of tlKsir lower regions, promised to
Prometheus, handler of fire, to the Americans of PHtsburg. to the Germans
of Essen, to the Latins of the Creusot. to the Scandinavians of m
Qyde^

the knowledge of the XlXth eentury has f ertiUMd the mind of the mulU-

«ldiii : and these have suhjected the pride ol monarchs. oi kings, emperors
and stiHAttS to the eenttol of the 61ite.

The knowledge of the XlXth century invites all hitherto indisputable

principles and postulates to the proof of controversy.

This science, which, in a century and a half, has done everything for the
eMe and eomfort ot men, this sdenee, nuraeulous bong, everywhere exis-
tant, tibat seems oonthiudly to seardi for brains in whieh to be eonCNVed.
for lips to express it, for bodies through which to manifest its creative energies,
we owe it to the small groups of the most highly gifted who in the XVIIIth
century, gathered together in monasteries and drawing-rooms, in the phy-
sicid Ial>oratories and libraries of great l<»ds and financiffls and in studies at
Philadelphia and Lyons. Frimi c<mversations and discusaons, the new
trutii was born.

The XV 1th century had written, and travelled.

The XVIIth redted and w^ganised.

The XVIIIth talked.

It was an epoch of intelligent conversations.

Interior art, the art of furnishing, was imagined for talkers. Cafes were
opened, and there people discussed. Little groups debated in book shops.
In the Masonic Locoes. ^Oosophos <tf all times were compared. Soon
the deet will declaim.

thus the idea perseveres and fructifies.

By MW means we must increase the <^>portttnities for interchanges bet-
ween scholars.

We must multiply the possibilities, if we do not wish the presetd ereatiae
era to come too quickly to an end.

Perhaps upon the frequency of our discussions will depend the conti-
ntuknee of sdentific mirafeles...

Perhaps it is sufficient that we converse more, and more lo^aily. hi
order that the time of somnolence shall not overtake us, and that the crea-
tive idea, which for two centuries pierces thousand intellects, shall not cease
httipsaiiiig its marvidlMM i^tort.

With this intention, scholars of all nations are organising congresses,
Whidi give them the opportunity of uniting u a capital and of coming into
ediitiet. Mure than the sobjeets opon the pregramme* more than the solema

controversies at the meetings, the private conversations move and inoeaae
the activity of thought of those who meet, are presented, congratulate and
interrogate one another* in institutes, in hotels, clinics and laboratories.

According to the oinnion of those who take part in these international
reunions, great good results therefrom. By having a diffienlt text explai*
ned by the author, by bringing up objections which he discusses and by
putting him to a proof which he interprets, each person's mind becomes
enlarged. Ways of coUaboration are j^ned. Encouragements are given.
Slight indications become important. Men compare, ^thesize and
deduct.

Of all the sdences, those of therapentics are to ns^ ont^ders* the most
objective and tangible. They attenuate or cure our ills. Th^ dday the

time of death. They restrict the ravages of epidemics. Therefore, as
they seem essential to us, we follow them the more closely.

Everybody lemembm the works published, the academic communica-
tions exchanged, the missions sent to the ates of disastw, in order to learn
the causes of yellow fever and the methods of preventing conti^on. Fear,
unbounded fear, was unanimous at the mere mention of this calamity.
Terrifying tales were spread, which, by the way, had no relation with truth.
Finally, the chances of war established the North Americans in Cuba. They
arrived at the hearth of the fever with new prophylMtic methods. In four
years the marshes were drained, the houses of Havana deaned, the insect
zygoma, propagator of the disease, was pursued, enclosed, exterminated.
The whole island, its cities, its suburbs and harbors escaped the nightmare.
The fever cases which aiqpear are isolated. No mwe contagion. The
hmrible phantom, which so mttch injured the 0Qry ei the sapetb Latin-
America, has been dissipated.

Immediately the methods of the North Americans were applied in Mexico,
in Brazil, in French Africa. Everywhere the evil at its birth was surroun-
ded, blocked, treated, killed with the extermmating insect Forty million
men breathe again. Commerce increases in the harbors formerly shunned.
Rio de Janeiro becomes one of the most beautiful capitals, in which a mfl*
lion men and more, earn their ease in the incomparable scenery of its Alps
and inland ocean, with its three hundred populated islands.

What was lacking that this good fortune did not come ten years earlier?

A pOTnanent congress of hygienists announcing to one another Uwir
hypotheses, commenting upon their discoveries, discussing their theories.

In ten years, how many victims could have been spared, how many mUlions
GOBld the commerce of these sometimes infested countries have invested I
How many mothers and widows could have been saved the despair of

trying for their cherished dead !

Through lack of constant agreements, frequent reunions and repeated
diseossions among the scholars of the two worlds, the North Americans were
obliged to keep to themsdves the advantages of their methodical prophy-
lactic. And if the Cuban war had not been declared, if the sted-dad* Maim^
had not been blown up in the harbor of Havana, if the American troupes
had not occupied the Island, the whole of Central and South America would
stffl be suffering the horrors of periodical epidemics, which, if less cruel than
was sometimes said, were ncvcrthdeas awful because of the mosqnito, zygo-
ma, that propagating the ill from house to house in a same street, heaped
up agonies in a limited space.

The history of the other epidemics, pests and cfaoteras, teach us that

only, or almost only, the international congresses of doctors and biologists
have determined the spiritual relations which are mother to an ef ficacioiia
hy^ene.

Moreover, by using a common language, Latin. mutuaUy to mstruct one
another in new conceptions, the scholars of the Middle Ages and of the
Renaissance proposed to obtain the assent and objections of their peers m
aU nations, so highly did they prize the cooperation of minds, originally
the most different, regarding a work everywhere hoped for. The value of
interpsychology and of its results, determined only in our day. had been
foreseen in ancient times. The EpisUes of the Evangdists, the conres-
pondance between Saint Jerome and Saint Melanie and the other pious
people of the Vth century, besides the letters of Saint Augustine, intima-
ted the expectation of these intellectual gatherings which fortunately are
more frequent in our q[)och.

That there should be in the world, a spot, in which, at any moment, in
the midst of perfectly oigamsed laboratories and libraries, might gather
together the men who work with the same hope of curing the ills of their
fellow creatures, or the same hope of better subjugating the forces of nature
to the labor of society, or the same hope of creating symbols in art, litera-
ture and music for the rare emotions of active thought or of receptive sensi-

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bility : this would be a precious guarantee of the continuity we desire for the
ereative eno^ of the present era.

Thenimt, sack a e«itie is today indispensable.

A worid centre of scientific and philosophical resettdk, where the mdrt

notable scholars, in possession of new ideas, could readfly experimttit the
value of the hypotheses constructed either by themselves or by their disci-
pks. A centre from which noUung would drive away the good wills. A centre
wherehi a world record could be kept of the entire range of the progressive
imagination of man, and where nothing usefully conceived by the humin
brain would be lost, A centre from which economic and practical know-
ledge would flow to all parts of the world. A centre and a city outside of
tSk histoiical and social quarrds, of all economic and national rivakies, a
centre belonging, nHthout poasa>le exception, to all.

To the Spirit of all.

To the Spirit only.

II

Convinced of this urgent necessity, a company of scholars and artists
has formed, in all countries, so as to proceed to the construction and organi-
zation of this future city. This apon the enlightened initiative <rf a ode^
brated sculptor who has given so much glory to the United States, Mr Heft-
drik Andersen.

The initiator of this enterprise immediately understood that it was
impossible to present to the natiom the mere harmonies of a dream. Here
praetical methods must prevail. Rmne, once die Imd i^btnitted the possi-
bility of administrating the affairs of the world, first laid out the woVidMttl
roads which, extending to all parts of the Empire, permitted her influence
to sjNread afar. Rome, though small, thus formed the heart of a vast sys-
tem <^ communication. By this v«ry fact she became mistress of the worid.
Similariy it is evident that the promised city, like a heart for univosal
science, a heart ready to distribute its creative energy through all r^ons
of the planet, can only be conceived in direct relation with the whole earth
and its millionfold increase of population wliich grows to demand the
Aceeasities that are essential to the common pn^press.

It is evident that this City of the Spirit could r^ but as a Whde, upon
a neutral territory or else upon a site offering, because of the habits of those
who frequent it. a perfecUy international character. Memphis, Cairo,

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original sites of the dhtat civai«ition; Atiiens, P^^^°^°t'^^
oZl the sciences in use upon tiie planet ; Rome where ti.e peoplesof the

Mediterranean, educators of the world, left each a "T™^.*^^

founded tiie rational autiiority of law accepted by the

the threedivineandlegeadary cities which present the ^^-ntages of tni«^«.

H. M. the King of Italy, in a conversation -^^^ '''^f'^.^^^.
judiciously extolled a Greek island of the Sea. "J.^^^J^^^^^^X

leen Europe, Asia and Africa. Delos, which, accordmg to the pre^
1^ Jt floated on ti>e waves tUl Jupiter chose it for ^^^^^J^
^tthere give birth to tiie two gods of ihe light of day rngh Ap^
^Diana ; Delos or another, would be a perf e^ spot -J^^^^^^^^
tiie temples of Contemporary Thought, daughter d ^ Uw» id xnm

*^A5rS^d of tiie Atiantic might also be thought of. placed half wayb^
ween thTSd worid and the new. The Azores, discovered C^^ral befo«
B LiU on! of the Antflles. Cuba. disce««d by ti« crew of CWopherC^
Zab^ at the end of their audacious crossing, seem eq«lBy ^J^^^^
the centre of human intelligence, as it was conceived m the N«1^^•* «
^Ih^ James, the Petersburg of Metchnikoff. the Sao Paulo of S«»to.

Dumont. as in the Pmte ^^^^ choicest

Finally, there are cit\es where there u a peniwnwt«. ««.
.pWU Iri «U the republics, from all the erapir»

Sud, ««>le come to instruct themselves, to visit the fhlMlto m ft"
^^rSSL «ii i. ih-r libr^ie^ — in the. P^?^ jj^

foug avenues. th»r park. «,d tt* g«d«. »d P*'^'''';^. ™
J salons. Washington, Ne^-York, ^^^'^'Z
«j»B«KlBUu. cities in which the aristocracies of aB n«. "«*»_■■«».

one moltar by the comparison of their respective excdlMieefc
Wo^^t™ rwortLt,i». too«of these a special, neighboring and
re:S Z to construct beside tt. « to nj-k.

the Bipreme spirit of the peoples would create more wider Ih. b.it«Mi<li>«»»x

.%

What iravdler h. dwing U. «.j««n in o»> of
^The formation of a superior ..tl««llty. Z^C^
fa, t|«ir teaming to migrate towards a same country m* to ooMbl-to ther.

ft new forte, that a£ excelleace.
^o^the .rgw»». «d by the p-iflts agunsl the horrors of war.

tiiis one seems to me to be sufficient.

Wc imagine ourselves upon the battle-field, facing an enemy whom
we know, because of having formerly met him in a scientific milieu, to be
one of the geniuses most capable of increasing our knowledge. This adver--
sary threatens with raised sword one of our ccunpatriotSy a good-for-nothing
enrolled in our squadron. To save the one, the other must be killed. A
foreign intellect must be destroyed which may, perhaps tomorrow,
suppress epidemics, facilitate aviation, or confide to the hertzian waves the
transportation of electric forces, thus considerably dirn^niiihing the pain oi
labor. Briefly, an intellectual and moral value of tlie first rank must be
destroyed, in order to save the life of the idiot or wretdh who marches under
our flag.

What a horrible dilemma !

And how wise then seems the desire to assemble, in one spot the scho-
larly, artistic and working intdleeta, leaving only Barbarians to hate one
another, far away, outside.

This reflection besets us particularly in the capitals where cosmopolitan
geniuses assemble, where the spiritual aristocracies of peoples i^eet, enjoy
and vie with one another in talents, virtue and beauty.

Such reflections p^suaded the initiators of our enterprise. And plans
were traced which outline the possibility of establishing the mental centre
not far from one of these capitals chosen by the taste of the best.

Yet otha* places attract the comopolitans, where they meet to enjoy
the pleasures of civilization, to amuse themselves in an agreeable landscape,
among games while drinking salubrious waters. The French Riviera, the
Italian Lakes, Egypt at Cairo, Switz^land, present somes familiar to all,
Latins, Slavs or Geimans, whom the taste for enjoyment invites to festive
countries. Wwldly society havmg formed the habit of going there, of resi-
ding and spending there, a whole organization already exists which facili-
tates the access to these spots and renders the sojourn there agreeable. And
the internationalism of these places is the more assured by the very fact
that pleasure and not reason decreed thdr intangible neutrality.

But, it win be said, all this is an fllusion. Build a city? What a fabu-
lous affair !... Paris was not made in a day, nor Rome, nor London, nor even
Washington, in spite of its rectilinear plan imagined all at once to serve the
adOEiinistrative and political needs of tiie United States.

Qties are the remit of dow growth. They increase acoMding to the
needs and desires of their inhabitants.

For a long tu(ne» ttus, alas, was only too true ; and how many men and
women, now sleeping in silent cemeteries could testify to the atrocious suf-
ferings endured before a premature death, among criminals grown up in the
flith and infections of successive centuries. Today, this slow agglomeration
is no longer indispensable. We have the means of concaving and con-
structing the bright city without awaiting the formation, thought « neces-
sary », of a slow growth throu^ centuries with their corruption and accumu-
lation of vices.

Once upon a time the problm would have been omplex and preeedents
iUasory... Today we know of several dties buUt at a stroke, according to a
purely theoretical idea, and that live intensely. The last in date is Bello
Horizonte in Brazil, capital of Minas Geraes, a State rich in minerals, man-
ganese, diamonds, and greater in extent than the whole of France.

This State had as capital an old city of the 17th and 18th centuries, admi-
nible in itself and the work of the first gdd-wdcers who had acquired tor^
tune or ease. Enclosed in a narrow circle of mountains and perched upon
steep hills dominated by twenty cathedrals, or sunk into ravines, the city
could not easily be extended Moreover, the suburban proprietors, belie-
ving in the possible value of their perlmps gold bearii^ lands, would only sdOi
at fabulous jnices. These difficulties finally wearied the membm <^ the
Government, who were anxious to erect a capital worthy of this favored
country ; anxious also not to displease any of the cities that claimed the
honor of succeeding Ouro Preto, the ministers decided to found anew upon
bare and vii;^ sdL In three years, from 1894 to 1897, the ^isemble of
BeUo Horizonte was built upon the site <rf a village. In the twenty seventh
month, the Government was lodged in its palaces, of the Interior, of Justice,
of Finance, and of Agriculture, with four thousand derks and guardians of
the peace living in entirely new quarters.

Soon the purveyms for these gentkmm fcdhmed with thdr fandlies,
and it became necessary to build. Two large hotds were «wted to receive
the people whose business obliged them to consult the Government. From
twenty five to thirty thousand people are living there, in 1913, along magni-
ficent avenues shaded by the most beautiful trees of the Tropics. The
Post Office is a monummital and spacious edifice. Qectric li^^t is every-
where dazzling. Tramways and trolleys pass under tunnels of verdure.
There is a Mediaeval railway station, battlemented in the English and Bel-
gian style ; which is less attractive. The trade in aigrettes flourishes.

The whole cost only fifty three millions, in a country where labor is dear.
On Sundays crowds fill the streets, besiege the cinCTiatc^raphs and theatres.

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There are ^ue-dnbs* and sotaffoifiorat raark^ where the agricultural pro-
ducts of the country are sold. Prom idl the ue^hborfaood tbt tumm

come together, bring to the market their vegetables, dairy products and
cattle. In all directions rural colonies are forming ; a few French nuns,
exiled as a consequence of our laws, have recently opened a now much
frequented school for the dau^teis of the well-to^ apd the land alone
cost hundred thousand francs for two or three acres at the extiemity <rf the
suburbs, so great has been the increase in the value of land worth almost
aotfaiiig befwe 1894. Factories and spinning-nuUs rise from the ground.

Thus, for fifty three mfflions, a habitable city has been built in three
years ; and m an ahnost deserted spot an active, fruitful and prospering life
has been devdoped.

Should one wish for a French example, in Occidental Africa upon the
Niger at Bamako, the engineering officers have erected the official city of
Koidooba, capitid id the Sudan, for four millions and a half. The palace
of the governor, who emnmands five miUira men, is faBy as good w oar
Petit Palais on the Champs-Elys6es. It dominates the course <rf the Niger
through a majestic valley, as Saint-Germain dominates the curve of the
Seine, and from the height of a similar terrace. The other official buildings
are m keeping and are set in the midst <rf handswie gard^. For the fami-
lies of functionaries and officers comely villas have been built, like those
at Saint-Cloud or Ville-d'Avray, Sorrento or Amalfi. Upon a neighboring
mountain, a model sanatorium comprising a dozen separate pavilions cost
a million. The whole forms a gay and lovely city, placed in an incompa-
rable site. No refined comfort is lacking. Pohtical-economy, ethnogra-
phy, the medical sciences, river navigation, are th^ studied by a labCHnous
6lite, devoted to their civilizing task.

In North America, Canada, the Klondyke, experiences abound which
justify the possibility of buildup a city all at one time and upon theoretic
plans. Present conveniences for transporting the materials for sted oons^
truction, raw materials, heating and lighting plants and for public hygiene,
as well as the manufactured essentials for producing power and light, sim-
|riify the whole matter. In the centre of our Africa run trains better fitted
out than those itf the metropcdis. River steimiships sail the Niger, on
which tourists have tiieh bath-tubs, their dectricity. their ice, and fcHP Chair

hunting parties, thf lions of the La^ Dhebo, hippopotami <tf Gao, iomI a
hundred vaneties of monstrous birds that seardi with their beaks in the
bordering marshes. All the more would modern facilities of transportation
aid the rapid construction of a city placed in a very accessible situation either
of ]he continents or of the Altantic Inlands.

Ill

Convinced by such examples, and having ascertained the practical ways
of realization, the scholars, artists and philanthropists who have become
associated to establish a world centre of thought, are eadi day stieogthfioed
in their hopes. In fact, it is a qnestion of a thing ess«itial to one and all
the nations. That is, « To postpone as long as possible the end of the creative
era which, for a century and more, overwhelms us with spiritual benefits and
gives us our intensive life ; and, far this purpose, to fmm permanent rtUdiom
bet^Hien philosophers, scholars andartids, asweUas between eeonomists and poli-
tical men, even favoring the reunion, in an international « elite of all men
and women noted for their civilizing work. »

Thus there would be constituted a permanent ehte, and the best, whoae
vital ideas, continually inoeased through controven^ and ezperiaices,
would multiply in this spedal atmosphere.

There would be formed an aristocracy of knowledge.

For several years back sociologists have noted the spirit different from that
of the individual spirits, whidi is bora in qiedal smroundmgs andispapiliar
to these.

The interpsychology of soldiers has been studied during battle, in the
hours of mad panic and of victorious enthusiasm, in the hours when a col-
lective energy appeared suddenly and became substituted for the individual
energies which were carried away by its effort ; an effort iod^iendeat of
personal cowardice or. bravery. Let us r^nanber the often quoted anec-
dote of August 10th, 1792, and the appearance of the lounger, who, during
the siege of the Tuileries by the Jacobin divisions, borrowed the gun of a
blunderer and repeatedly shot at the Swiss guards who were defending the
Palace. As these adnoirers of his skill, reusing to aoc^t the arm he gave
back to them, urged him to continue his fire, the passer excused himsdf,
giving as reason that he did not share the political opinion of the agressors ;
on the contrary.

In my opinion, this marksman was not a cold sceptic, ncr yet a bittor
ironist. He was a man whom the adtsctive soul <tf the cmibatai^ had

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seized, fevered and maddened. Unable to resist the influrace of the atmos-
phere developed by the public insanity, he had obeyed the intense desire to
fight. Once this sort of unreasonable thirst had been satisfied, he had by
an ^ort of will withdrawn fr<Hii the surrounding influence. Then» as a
quick-^tted Parisian, he had ^en a funny excuse. In fact, he had C3q)ei
rienced that same kind of interpsychological phenomenon which decides
nervous or simple-minded people in the street, to pursue the escaping thief,
to throw thwnsdves into the midst of a fight, to plead in a dangerous quarrel.
MwA we not sometnnes do violence to our instincts, in order not to give in
to the collective soiil forming about Uic pursued robber, inteitocked advw-
saries or loud talking disputants? Impulsive, Uie boobies do not resist;
they run, they bump, they declaim.

In the theatre and Parliament, this collective soul constrains half the
spectatm to whistle or applaud words and gestures which in ordinary life
they would approve or blame. Hence crar stup^aetion when, twenty
years after, we read an absurd drama which in its day had a prodigious suc-
cess, or a sublime tragedy which fell under the obliquy of a wearied public.
Hence iAm> the soiadess laws which, in ev^ country, are voted by politi-
cians usually more cultivated and wise in private life.

But if it is thus among the paadve in the snariing tumults of street. Par-
liament OT theatre, it is quite othmriae among superior, firm and active

intellects.

Thus : in the gardens of the Academos, among the thoughtful Greeks
who admired the plastic wrestling of the epheboi, the noble efforts of the
disoobolos, an the beauty of the human body in its rhythmic activity, was
bom a collective intelligence which became tl^ philosophy of Socrates and
Plato. By contemplating living beauty, idealism was perfected in poww^
ful minds. Aristotle and his disciples educate the youth of the Mace-
donian phalanx, and that of Alexander. From the scientific spirit came
forth a glory whidi astonifliied the worid, ruled the new destmies of Egypt,
and gave birth to the Alexandrian ^peculations.

Again : the collective soul of the early Christians, exalted by the ado-
ration of their suffering and fraternal God, produced the clergy of the
Vth century who civiUzed the Barbarian conquerors of the Latin world.
Laboriously it tau^ the feudal Gmnans respect Im human Uf e, f w intel-
ligence and for the arts practised in the cities, and transformed the brutiA
Franks into the erudite lords of the Renaissance. The collective soul of

V.

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the Cistercian convents cut down the forests of Gwil. chose marveDoiu sites
to construct there its abbeys and its doisters, inaugurated the aesthetics
of tlie eathedral, encouraged the art of statuaries and painters, discovered
old Gfeek and Roman manuscripts, and put communism and socialism into
practice among its monks for eight hundred years. Therefore, tiie conven-
tual aite gave to the wmld a oeiUeetivs qniit eapable of magniHeent and
dnmWe ainwlcs.

It is an equally creative spirit that those associated with the work of
the World Centre desire to see develop in a city of Thought.

The monuments which are to be erected in this spot are the symbols of
the principal ideas dear to our time. Antiquity gives us main examples.

The pylons which in higher Egypt bastion the porch of Philae, harbor
colossi seizing Nubian groups by the hair and clubbing them to death, to
show the fatal punishment awaiting the Ethiopian intnidere.

The Acropolis signiSes the unpetns of Ifinerva-Athena ; Hellenic intel-
ligence desu^ng to know the new laws which rule the lights of heaven.

The Temple at Paestum, so marvellously situated upon the Gulf of Sa-
lerno, shows the harmony imagined by the Sybarites to exist between their
spirit, happening there, and the soul «f the Italians of Lueania.

The eathedral is the stone prayer of people born of the forests who cry
out to God their desh«, by means of man who thinks them, to many nature
to the rest of the universe.

And is not the modem raUway station, which in iU nave gathers together
the tracks that nm to aU parts of the country, an nnage of the heart that
attracts and assembles the arteries, carrying life with the blood into all parts
of the body and bringing it back to the centre of the person, there where aU
the essential forces of being are reconstituted.

Portico, citadel, temple, cathedral, and station, these monmnenta each
t«8tify purely to an idea.

Proceeding like the architects of the past, Mr Hendrik Andersen and his
coUaborators have drawn the plans, secUons and elevations of the city,
centre of the world thought.

House of 4Utaa : eeoiwoii Hearth of tl» Sdeneas, this city can open out"
npwi the sea-eoast, to an the good wiDs crowding in upon all the winds of
the horizon. Nothing has been omitted : a Palace for Theoritical
Sciences, an International Bank, Libraries, an Institute of Socmlogical
Sciences. Institutes consecrated to Law, Agricattnre, Ifedidne and Sur-
gery* and the SerboaM af tha raHgleiia ideas win raise their magnificent

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facades upon the Place des Con^ a drcolar space which the Tower of
Progress wiU dominate.

In ais Tower the universafly useful International Associations can assem-
Wc. From its summit wireless telegraphy will radiate thought over the
l«anet. In the basement, a complete printing establishment wiU fadUtate
tne immediate means for rq>resentatives of the press to seize the discourses
♦i ^ pronounced in the mtemational centre, and to spread throughout
we worid the exact news of experimental facts and creaUve ideas.

Between this Place and the harbor stretches an Avenue of the Nations,
©ordered by Buildings and scienUiic Laborat(»ies; on the North, Institutes
lor mters ; on the South, Institutes of Higher Learning which will permit
a continuous exchange of ideas among scholars, professors, laureates and
men and women devoted to education and to the study and comparison of
the methods best adapted to elevate the peoples. F^m thence the influence
of this culture would direcUy reach the universities of all countries, even
to the least institutions of learning where gather the most ignorant crowds;
and ahM tiie inferior races, those without an elite.

The Avenue will end at the Fountain of Life and Temple of Arts, a m».
jestic circle ornamented by the chief works of modem statuary. TTie Con-
servatory of Music and School of Fine Arts wiH frame the Fountain of Life.
B^d Uie Temple irf Arts win spread the Grand Canal, a magnificent mirror
B^een tiie Zoological Gardens and Natural History Museum. A Stadium
dedicated to Physical Culture wiU complete tiie ensemble of tiie dty niwn
the sea or river front.

From Uie centi« wiU radiate tiie avenues which traverse the bridges of
a surrounding canal. They will serve the business, industrial and residence
quarters, which are divided into zones and sections. Another wider canal,
m the shape of a U. embraces these quartera and tiie dty in Uidr midst, and
over Its waters ships wiU come as far as tiie inland dodo, leaving thdr car-
goes some at tiie quays reserved for expositions, others upon the hospital
quays, or at tiie landings of flowering gardens, agglomerations of villas and
of private houses.

*•*

It is pleasant to imagme a dty, to trace its plans, carefully to outUne
parks and squares, to photograph the statues, fountains and high reliefs
tiiat could be placed there, to arrange the sites for stations and for docks.

It is pleasant thus to suggest the practical means by which humanity,
considered as a whole not of hostile parts but of nations united to one another,
could determine for itself a more rational and a better life.

Architecture is the supreme art. It utilizes all the others and makes
them contribute towards the perfection of the whole. MMrs Hendrik |Andep>
sen and Ernest H6brard have thus composed a very, beautiful book for the
members of the company who ensure the duty of constructing the dty of
the Worid Thought.

MMrs L6on Bourgeois, d'Estournelles de Constant, Charles Richet and
Rodin, in France, as well as many other notabilities from all the othw
nations, in looking through thb sumptuous album, deem that once this
dty is bnflt. a central and intonatlonal opinion will quickly form there
of considerable influence. Evidently, if the most illustrious men of all
nations, strong with the prestige acquired through their learning, meet
there and express their opinion, opportunely, who will not listen, re^eetful
of their counsd? Therefore in sndi a cmtre international jostiee could truly
be bom, and could, by the simplest manifestations, impose itself upon the
leading classes, and then upon the multitudes.

How could such a justice, administered by such arbiten, fail, in tha
course of tune, to govern the wisdom of the nations?

Yes, the Centre of Science must one day also become the centre of judg-
moits. everywhere accepted. Then would be the end of the barbarous
wars so littie in accord with the philosophies which andent and modern iutel-
ligenoe extols.

An insensate dream, say some.
Yet not entirdy.

Forty nations oat of forty five desired, at the Second Hague Conference,
to inscribe upon their programme the examination of obligatory arbitra-
tion all in cases, for all peoples, at the hour of dangerous conflicts. Only
three ambassadors refused to subscribe. Two of these, it is true, repre-
sented England and Germany, nations of the first rank, and without whose
consent in our day nothing is possible.

Nevertheless, it is certain that the nations wiU not, cannot, abandon w
even diminish their armaments until a more efficadoos solution than that of
massacre protects thdr ri^ts and assures thdr egqiandon.

Moreover, it may be that the warlike aristocrades, mistresses of public
ophilon hi these great countries, may in the future lose some of their prestige.
Then would occur in Europe as in America, at the least what occurred in
France, when Flemish and Basques, Bretons and Lorrains. Nwaians and Pio-
vencauz, aU difierent in origin, customs, aspkations and dialects, resolved
nevertiidess to fraternise under the fl«g of the Revolution. Liberator of the
peoples.

Yes, as Mr Hendhk Andersen wrote so imil in the introductioa to tliis
^reat book :

c Foanded in Purity and Love, and strengthened by Justice* tbe natioBt

of the world must ultimately blend harmoniously into one great family.
Humanity's mission is to realize that Kingdom of Heaven on earth, visioned
fnmi within by the spirit of man. Ever nearer Divinity mounts the human
faee and ever increaaiii^ is the laet Imnight home to buui» that, io the
eyes of the Divine Creator the hitherto irrecolkdiable tribes of the earth mn
originally conceived and created as One. »
Yes :

In the distant w in the near4>y future, a single ibuaan Br otheriuMML

Appel du Comity France-Am^rique

Les Franyais qui signent cet appel vienneat de fonder une institution qui se consacre k une
OBOvre nrgente de rapprodiaiient ct de sympathle eotre la Ftanoe et les natioiis «iii6ricaines : c'est
le Comity France-Am^rique.

Le ComiU France-Amtriqut a ^t6 fond6 k Paris la fin de 1909 et a ^tabli son dtgs aodal : 21, rue
Cassette.

Travailler au dfivelopppement des relations 6conomiques, intellectuelles, artistiques, etc., entre
les nations du Nouveau-Monde et la nation frangaise ; fonder une Revue mensuelle et y coordonner
ki TCttsefgnanaits les plus complets sur la vie to)nomique et intellec^nelie des peoples amMcafais ;

attirer en France des 6tudiants et des voyageurs des deux Am^riques, et leur preparer un accueil
cordial ; encourager toute ceuvre ou toute action qui fera connaitre TAm^rique en France ou la
FnuMe en Am6rique, telle sera la dlieetion donn6e k nos efforts.

Les soussign6s font appel au concours g6n6ral et au d6vouement actif de ceux qui, en Fnare,
s'int6ressent aux Am^iques et de ceux qui, dans les Am^riques, sHnt^ressent k la France.

Bureau du Comite

President : M. Gabriel Hanotaux, de rAcad^mie fran^aise^ anoien ministre des Affaires dtrangdres.
Viee-PrisidenU : MM. le Otateai Bnistee ; Visomte Robert da Gaix d« Saint-Aymour ; Heurteau, d6}6ga6

g^n^ral da Conaeil d'administratum da la 0^ d'Orl^ans ; F^angoii Gamot* d^put^, pr^aident de TUnioii

des Arts ddcoratifs.
Trimmer : M. le Connte Robert de Vosuft.

SwMn Qimirti : K. OaMri Louii Jatay. aaditear an Oomea d*Etat.

Conseil de Directton

MM.
Vanl Adam.

Oomle d'AIeaaa» pfiaee afaetwif ■

Ed. Anthoine, directeur des serv. administ. d»la JWI

ration dea Jndu^riela et Commerganta,
ViseBrte dTAvenel.

A. Babeau, president du Conseil iriidiiilairtiafinn dee

Transports Maritimes d vapeu/r,
JiMVOMt BafievBt piofMasiir 4 PAab dit 8timtet$

politiquea.

Louis BarthoUt d^put^, president du Conseil.

P. Baudin, s6nateur, ministre de la Marine.

Btaao, maitre des requetea hon. au Conseil d'E. it»

admin, de la Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bos.
Ed* de Billy, administ. des Chargeurs RSunis.
Georsee Blondel, profeaseor 4 VScoU dea ifontaa-

JENidea oommareuitea.
VMoiiMa de Breteuil.
Ctante Stanislas de fiaatelianne
Bdmond Chaix, prMleat de la Oommiaekm du Toa-

risme de V Automobile Club.
Abel GhevaUey, aoua-directMjr d'Amdh^oe an minia-

Mve diaa Affaifsa dlvaii^Snaa
Omuon, de Tlnstitut.

A* Contyy ministre pt6aip,, anoien aons-directear

^Amlrique an m Infatiitfe dm Aflaitee Mna^jtm.
Marquts Georges de Cr4««MContfort.

A. Croiset, doyen de la Faeiih6 dee lettiea de TUni-
▼anMdePMto.

Darboux, secret, perpdtuel de VAecidimie de9 Scimm$,
Dubailf cuioien ministre pldnipotentiaire.

B. i*BMMlpMdwk da r^aela daa MmemptU-

tiques,

Fabre-Luoe* anoien seor^t. d'ambassade, vice-prdai-

dent du Conseil d*admin. da CridU L^mmmiB.
Farjon, pr^sidenfc da la Qhambte da eoniMna da

Boulogne.

Vmand Faure, dlieoleui da la Mmm faHtfma i(

parlementaire.
Franooia Flamens, de I'lnatitat.
Franklin, r^dateur en ahel die Qmmtkm dfplNiM*

tiqu€$ et colaniaU$0
Hiori Fteidevaw.
E. Causer, indtuMli.
Gteald NobeL

Oeiavd-DeeniB, minMeo pMnfoolantieiwi.

Daniel Guestier, prMdiB* da M Ctliawfcie da eon*

maroe de Bordeaux.
LooiB OvBalaa. dn Tmnpe.

Guillain, anc. mliiiiha. prSs. du Comiti du Maroc,
Baron Hulot, aeonM. g6n. de la Soci^ de Oiogruphie,
lulaa Haat, dn Fifont,

KleozkowBki, ministva da ffVanatb aMiaa aoanl gift-

n^ral au Canadcu
Comte de Labry, aMiMaifa ginM dn OMtf da

r^daia /vonfoiBft.

MM.

Rapbail-GeoiKea IMy, profowwnr 4 VJSeoU dm

ocwmioem ponnTViav*
Paul Labb6, secretaire gMMl da la dMM di Ofo*

gra^ie comtnerciaU,
Laloac de Flnatitat, prMdeni dee Artietae /ron^aia.

Professeur Landouzy, de TAcaddmie da aaMaaine^

doyen de la Faculty de middeoine.
Femand Laodet, secret. d'ambaMadeb ^Knelaw da

la Revue hebdomadaire.
Andr6 Lebon, pr^s. de la FidSraition des Induetriele

et des Commergants et prMd. dn OoBMil dTadaaiB.

des Messageries Maritimes,
G6n6ral G. Lebon, ancien membre du Conaeil sup6-

rieur de la Qaaieia.
Abel Lefrane, |ii niiuaaayi an CoiUge da JViawaa.
G6n6rai Lev6.

ti6on Lhermitte, de Tlnstitut.

Aadri 1 tobtealwffpw, diiaetoar adjoint dn MmtU

Henri Lorin, ancien 61dve de VEco^m IpO^^tMlHiqpM^

La F^m adminiatrateor dn JoumA

Beat MBee, amimaiedwu da IVaiwa

o. No«l. vice.pT^ideaft di la wmntkm dm Mm-

irieU et Commergomt.
BAnand VwiIhv da PTaMiint.

Pioeioni, min. pldnip., ancien sous -directeur d'Aad*

rique an ministdre dea Affaires dtraagdiee.
ftiarlai Piaet, anoien inapeefe. dea Financea^ dteaetem

dn OrUit industriel et commercial,
Biai Plnon« r^dacteur de politique 6trangdre 4 la

JKavue des Dmu^Mmtdee,
Marcel Po*te, oi iMWfaiwi da la BiWiotMqM da

ville de Paris.
Protesaeur Pozzi, de rAoaddmie da mddmbm,
Raindre, ambassadeur de France.
H. de RAsnier. de TAcad^mie fran^aiae.
De Rlbaa OfcilHune, ingAdenrt maiwfcfa da la Chaanhea

de commerce de Paris.
Charles Rouz, prteident du conseil d'administ. de la

Compaynte gSnSraU Transatlantiqm «4 dn

CompUnr National d'Eacompte,
E. Salone, secret. g6n6ral de VAUianee /lowpatfai.
Comte Louis de Sarti^es, secretaire d*ambaaaada.
Sinart. de I'lnatitat, pateidant dn ComiU de fAuie

francaiee.

Jules Siegfried, d^put^, anoiHl nittftrtm.
Blaarioe Sgmnak, d^nute.

Aadii Taiileu, dn Temps, premier aeer^taiia d*am-

baaaada hoooraire.
A. Xante* aeeatoire gdntel dn Comiti de FAJriqm

^'vn^staB.

Andri Thome.

Da Vemeuil. etyndic dee Aaents de change de Faiii.
A. VlalaH. pinftaiBM kVWeeie dee Battmrn peH-
Ufmee*

YeBr «8 Mr Hendiik Andents nmte m wdl in the iutrodMctioft this
gKttt bodi :

t Founded in Purity and Lofe, and 8traigth«B€d by Jiirtie^ ttte mtiM^

of the world must ultimately blend harmoniously into one great family.
Humanity's mission is to realize that Kingdom of Heaven on earth, visioned
bma wittak by the q»mt (tf hmul Ever nawer Divinity mountft the hmaan
faee aad evw inereann^ is the faet biw^t home to bmhi» tha[t» m tbt
eyes of the Divine Creator the hitherto irreco&ciUUe tribes of the earth iven
originally conceived and created as One. »
Yes :

In the dtstaat or in the Bflar4»y fatwe* a single Hiiaaa BrotheriiMd.

Appel du Comity France-Am^rique

11

II

Les Fran^ais qui signent cet appd viennoit de fonder une institution qui se consacre k une
QBUvre urgente de rapprochement et de sympathie entre la France et les nations am^ricaines : c'est
le Comit6 France-Am6rique,

Le Cottdii France-AmHriqiu a fond£ k Paris ji la fin de 1909 et a 6tab]i son sUge aodal : 21, im
Cassette.

Travailler au dfivelopppement des relations 6conomiques, intellectuelles, artistiques, etc., entre
let (nations du Nouveau-Monde et la nation fiangaise ; fonder une Revue mensuelle et y coordonner
let lensclgnMnents les pliis complets snr la vie tewomtope et intcDeetaelle des peuples amMcains ;
attlrer en France des etndlants et des voyageurs des Aax Am^riques, et Icur preparer un accuell
cordial ; encourager toote oeuvre ou toute action qai fera connaitre TAmdrique en France ou la
Fkaaiee en Am6rique, telle sera la ^reetioii donnfe i nos effwts.

Les soussign6s font appel au concours g^n^ral et au dfivouement actif de ceux qui, en
sfint^ressent aux Am^riques et de ceux qui, dans les Am6riques, s'int^essent k la France.

Bureau du Comity

PrisideirU : M. Gabriel Hanotauz, de VAcad^mie frnngaise^ enoiaa miniBtre dea Affiine

VicB-Prlaidenta : MM. le Giniral Bru^Are ; Vioomto Robert de Caix de Saint-Aymour ; Heurteau, ddl^goA
gdn^ral du Conseil d' administration de la d'Orl^ans ; Franffoie Camot, d6put6, president de I'Union
des Arts d^oratifo.

Triaorier ; M. le Comto Robert de VoffuS.

SecrMf QMnl : M* Oabrial Louis Jaray, auditeor au Conseil d'Etat.

Conseil de Direction

MM.
Paul Adam.

Oomto d'Altaee, prisee afffcitii, steatenr.

Ed. Anthoine, directeur des serv. administ. dela JVd^-

nUion dea Induatriels et Oommer^ante.
Vkemti ^A'mutiL

A. Babeau» president du Conseil irmlminirttelinii des

Tranaparte Maritimea d vapeur,
Jaoques llaiiow, |MFohwwu 4 P Jteeli At SMmtsea

politiquea.

Louis Barthou, d^put^, pr^ident du Conseil.

P. Baudin, stoateiVt ministre de la Marine.

BAnao, maltre des requetes hon. au Conseil d*Etat,

admin, de la Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bos.
Ed> do Billy, administ. des Chargeurs Rhinia.
OM«ee BlondeU prnUsamm 4 dee Htmiaa-

Studea eommmidUa,
Vioomte de BreteuU.
Comto Wanlilet de fieetelianiie
IMnHmi Ohaiz, president de la Oomodnkm da Too-

risme de VAutomohiU Club,
Abel ChevaUey* aoua-dizeoteur d'Amdnqoe an minie-

vsvB ooB Azranve enenfiNB*
Cormon, de Flnstitut.

A. Conty, ministre pUoi^ attfliflu eoas^Uieotear
d'Amdeiqae aa nfaiMtea te AffiiM MffMB^^

Marquis Oeorgee de Cr6qui-Montfort.

A. CroiMt, doyen de la Faculty dee lettree de TUni-
irweM de Paris.

Davboux, secret. perp6tael de IMead^ie dee
Pabafl, anoi^ ministre pl^nipotentiaiie.

Hquea,

Fabre-Luoe. ancien secret, d'ambassade, vice-pru-
dent du Conseil d*admin. du CridU

Farjon, prdsident da la fihamhta da
Boulogne.

Vtenand Faure, ttaelsnr da la
TpttrUmefUairt.

Francois Flamenc, de rinstttot.

Franklin, r^cdateur en
<»SiMe et cokmiaUa,

HMri VMdsraux.

B. Gaugert inilmiiiili
OMd NobeL

ndDistre pl6mpotsaliai>a.
Ouestier, pr^idenl da la OhMBin da

de Bordeaux.
Oiriliine, da Tempt.

GuUlaln, anc. ministre, pr^s. du ComiU da Maroc.
Banm Hulot, secret. g&L de la SoeUti de 0it$rapkie.
^nlss liureii da Figaro*

Kleozkowski, ministva da Uranea. aMim aswd

ndral au Canada.
Oomte de Utar, MarHirfia gMnl da OMtf de

f 4*<> /ww^ahib

MM.

Ravhaa-Georfee LAvj, peoftMsear 4 VJBcoU dee

iSWeaeee politiquea.
Paul Labb«, secrStaiie gittM de la fhtM db

graphie oommerdaU,
Laloox. de nMitot, ptMs^ dw iMMs /nm^
Professeur Landouzy, de TAaadtaie da

doyen de la Faculty de mAdenineu
Femand Laade*> seerAi. d'ambaeaade» dheeteui da

la Revue hehdomadaire.
Andr6 Lebon, pr^. de la FSdSnUion dea Induairieia

et des Comtner^anta et prWd. da OonaMfl d'admki.

des Messageries Maritimea.
Gin6ral G. Lebon, anoira membre du Conseil aop^

rieor de la ChMKva.
Abel Lefraao, prnj—ew an OeW^s de
Gtefoal Ler*.

Idon Uiennitte, de Tlnstitut.

AnM iMktmkmg&Kt dinotsar adioiot

—

Henri Lorin, ancien 61dve de TEcole
t» Page^ administratear dn JomnaL

da

O. NoU. vice-prdsidenk da la

Wiaia et Commerfomft,
■toaai Hwriw^ da nuttm.

Piooioni, min. pl6nip.» ancien sous -directeur

rique au ministdre des Alfaixes 6traa9dni»
Cauirias Pieot, an^en inspect, dss Ffa

du CrHit industriel et commercial.
RsnA PInon, r^dacteur de poUtiqae ^trangto & la

fievae dea Dmrn-Mmaim.
Mareel PoMe> 1 MMialiyi da la BaWplfcijai da la

ville de Paris.
Profaeseur Pozzi, de rAoad^iole da
Raindre, ambassadeur de France.
H. de R6ciiier» de rAcad^mie franfaise.
De Rtbee Oluletofle, iii^i'iiiieai.i

de commerce de Paris.
Charles Roux, pr^ident du conseil d'administ. de la

Compagnie gdrUrale TranaaOaattagtm at adnda. da

Corrvptoir N€Uional d'EacompU,
B. Salone, secret, g^n^ral de VAUiance fran^iae.
Comte Louis de Sarticuee, secretaire d'ambassade.
Mnart, de rinstitaft. peMdent da ComiU de PA^k

fran^iae.

Jules Siegfried, d^putd, anoisa waUUtn,
Haoiies Sjmask, depute.

AnM ttedisa, da Temps, premier seoifttana d*am-

bassade honoraire.
A. Tenier. aecr^taira gtoM dn OomiU do FAJrigm

Andri Thome.
De VanMoil, nmdic das il«its de change de Paris.
A. VMMb wnftMBW 4rJMi dte ~

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